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Shifting Categories of Work: Unsettling the Ways We Think about Jobs, Labor, and Activities

Shifting Categories of Work: Unsettling the Ways We Think about Jobs, Labor, and Activities

Zimmermann, Bénédicte
Herzog, Lisa

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LaborGeneral SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1032376627
ISBN13: 9781032376622
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 30 2022
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

What do human beings do when they work, how is work organized, and what are its multidimensional - economic, social, political, biographical, ecological - effects? We cannot answer these questions without drawing on the numerous categories that we use to describe work, such as skilled or unskilled work, domestic work or wage labor, gig work or platform work. Such categories are not merely theoretical labels as they also have practical effects. But where do these categories come from, what are their histories, how do they differ between countries, and how are they evolving? Shifting Categories of Work asks these questions, illuminating the many ways in which our societies categorize work. Written by sociologists, philosophers, historians and anthropologists as well as management and legal scholars, the contributions in this volume contrast different cultural practices and frameworks of categorizing work across different countries.

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